Brian Stills is up there with Bazin as practically required reading for any serious cinema studies program, and it's not hard to see why. Just look at his cutting analysis of Bill's seed... mindblowing.
Aha, that e-mail from the Norse person seriously struck a nerve for me. If you're gonna cook in bulk, just freeze the portion that you know you won't get to before it's spoiled, and re-heat it later. Otherwise, you're literally just wasting more food in your attempt to not waste food >.<
The last time I saw this movie was on late night TV as a kid, and back then I thought it was like a seedy "adult" interpretation of Mario and got scared off. I haven't bothered to watch it since then, but this video is convincing me otherwise.
"Old" was my first post-quarantine movie theatre experience and uh... not a great film, but fun if you understand that it's just a relatively high budget B-movie. (The scene where the lady goes all Sadako on a couple of teens because she's old is easily one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.)
On the M. Night Shyamalan paradox: I think his movies, alongside Christopher Nolan's oeuvre and "Lost", basically poisoned the well of pop culture criticism into something that treats every piece of art as a puzzle box that needs to be "decoded" with a single, all-encompassing explanation, rather than as subjective experiences which can have different meanings for every viewer. Just something I find aggravating about popular movie discourse.
This was fine. The humour wasn't really my thing -- lots of straining to come up with the perfect mean-spirited zinger, some of which was deserved (in the case of Rivers being a creep) but mostly just fell flat. I think this concept would greatly improve if there were more context -- e.g. into the band's output before the album, about the production, any internal issues going on with the artists, how it was received at the time, etc. -- like what Todd in the Shadows does with his Trainwreckords series. Also hope future episodes aren't all going to be rock focused.
On the topic of the actual video, I have basically no relationship, or any desire to start one, with Weezer aside from (very shamefully) liking "Pork and Beans". Rivers also did a great collab with The Avalanches on "We Will Always Love You", an actually good album that people should listen to if they want the residual Weezer stink out of their ears.
This is like the only place ever where orchestral music is considered the "underdog" lmao. Considering I didn't really care for any of the staff's picks other than Umurangi Generation (which was robbed) I think I just appreciate Best Music as a weirdly cutthroat category to watch with popcorn handy.
I know basically nothing about music theory and this game is still stupid fun to play. I didn't get the deluxe edition so no DLC songs, but I'm already looking forward to when those start popping up (and I legit never buy DLC). It is a bit sad this won't get the traction it deserves on Twitch because of the whole DMCA debacle, though :(
I'm South Asian, so not Filipino (but close!) and it's amazing how many of the experiences y'all talked about here really lined up with my own -- scream-fights with your parents about not wanting to be a doctor, immigrant values, feeling out of place when you go to the motherland, etc. Really enjoyed this, can't wait for the next episode :)
This seriously couldn't have come at a better time. I'm currently writing an essay about this for a cult film course, so now I can re-watch with the GB crew's insights to mine :D
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